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1) No surrender
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
With the help of an eccentric ex-governor, a teenaged boy searches for his missing cousin in the Florida wilds.
Author
Language
English
Description
The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments "uses her powerful gifts of language and observation to delineate both the misunderstandings between men and women and the everyday sadnesses and comforts of love” (The New York Times).
In each of these stories Atwood deftly illuminates the shape of a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of...
In each of these stories Atwood deftly illuminates the shape of a whole life: in a few brief pages we watch as characters progress from the vulnerabilities of...
3) Scat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.
4) Prey
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirty-two-year-old Angie Powell has always spoken her mind, but in the presence of Dare Callahan she nurses a simmering rage. Three years ago, Dare returned home to rural Montana and opened a hunting business to rival Angie's own, forcing her to close up shop. The infuriatingly attractive Iraq war vet even had the nerve to ask Angie out, not once but twice. Before Angie leaves town, she organizes one last trip into the wilderness with a client. But...
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The novel begins with an imagined gunshot and ends with a new tin roof. Between the two is a wry and knowing portrait of Rebecca Winter, a photographer whose work made her an unlikely heroine for many women. Her career is now descendent, her bank balance shaky, and she has fled the city for the middle of nowhere. There she discovers, in a tree stand with a roofer named Jim Bates, that what she sees through a camera lens is not all there is to life....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
After his experiences surviving alone in the Canadian wilderness, sixteen-year-old Brian finds it increasingly difficult to live as a normal high school student and begins planning to return to the place where he feels he really belongs.
7) The crossing
Author
Series
Border trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In the 1930s, two teenage brothers whose ranch in New Mexico was raided by bandits, cross into Mexico to search for stolen horses. The novel follows them through the revolution-torn countryside, meeting soldiers, peasants, priests and thieves, all proffering advice. By the author of All the pretty horses.
Author
Language
English
Description
Five women go on a hike. Only four return. Jane Harper, the New York Times bestselling author of The Dry, asks: How well do you really know the people you work with? When five colleagues are forced to go on a corporate retreat in the wilderness, they reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking down the muddy path. But one of the women doesn't come out of the woods. And each of her companions tells a slightly different story about what happened....
Author
Series
Haven's Rock volume 1
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's Rockton Novels had one of the most unique towns in crime fiction. Murder at Haven's Rock is a spinoff, a fresh start... with a few new dangers that threaten everything before it even begins. Haven's Rock, Yukon. Population: 0. Deep in the Yukon wilderness, a town is being built. A place for people to disappear, a fresh start from a life on the run. Haven's Rock isn't the first town of this kind,...
10) The rising
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
"The race for survival comes to a thrilling conclusion when Maya and her friends--who all have supernatural powers--find help against the Cabals from unexpected places"--
11) Ordinary wolves
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
14) Small game
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A gripping novel about a survival reality show gone wrong that leaves a group of strangers stranded in the northern wilds"--
Four strangers and six weeks: this is all that separates Mara from one life-changing payday. She was surprised when reality TV producers came knocking at Primal Instinct--the survival school where she teaches rich clients not to die during a night outdoors--and even more shocked to be cast in their new show, Civilization....
15) Queen of swords
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned in the French Antilles for endangering the Crown, Jennet Huntar awaits rescue by her kinsman, Luke Bonner, and together they set out to find their child, surrendered to a virtual stranger at the time of her imprisonment.
16) The night fox
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Elizabeth confronts heartbreak while at a mysterious, magical wellness program in the wilderness.
17) Harry's trees
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When you climb a tree, the first thing you do is to hold on tight...Thirty-four-year-old Harry Crane works as an analyst for the US Forest Service. When his wife dies suddenly, he is unable to cope. Leaving his job and his old life behind, Harry makes his way to the remote woods of northeastern Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains, determined to lose himself. But fate intervenes in the form of a fiercely determined young girl named Oriana. She and her...
18) The atlas of us
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Atlas James has lost her way. In a last-ditch effort to pull her life together, she's working on a community service program rehabbing trails in the Western Sierras. The only plus is that the days are so exhausting that Atlas might just be tired enough to forget that this was one of her dad's favorite places in the world. Before cancer stole him from her life, that is. Using real names is forbidden on the trail. So Atlas becomes Maps, and with her...
19) The calling
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Description
Maya and her friends--all of whom have supernatural powers--have been kidnapped after fleeing from a forest fire they suspect was deliberately set, and after a terrifying helicopter crash they find themselves pursued by evildoers in the Vancouver Island wilderness.
20) Mrs. Mike
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Recently arrived in Calgary, Alberta after a long, hard journey from Boston, 16-year-old Katherine Mary O'Fallon never imagined that she could lose her heart so easily-or so completely. Standing over six feet tall, with "eyes so blue you could swim in them," Mike Flannigan is a well-respected sergeant in the Canadian Mounted Police-and a man of great courage, kindness, and humor. Together, he and his beloved Kathy manage to live a good, honest life...
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